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Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Cheap corn, Prairie harvest quality weigh on prices

By Phil Franz-Warkentin - MarketsFarm September 20, 2018

CNS Canada — Cheap corn imports and adverse Prairie harvest conditions should mean no shortage of feed grain in Alberta’s feedlot alley this winter — which should also keep prices under pressure going forward. “Anytime you get a ripe crop and you get snow and rain falling on it, it normally doesn’t make better quality,” […] Read more

Crops, Hay, Weather

Prairie hay crops look thin in many areas

By Terry Fries July 19, 2018

CNS Canada — Many farmers taking off their first hay cuts are also gathering more talking points to grumble over at coffee row. While many producers are still working to get the first cut done and the situation could change with the second cut, many regions are already reporting below-average yields. “In areas of the […] Read more

Barring serious rainfall soon, custom grazer Dale Engstrom warns, producers may need to make tough decisions about destocking.

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‘Baby’ those pastures in a drought year

By Jennifer Blair May 16, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes Grazers hit hard by last year’s drought could be in for another difficult year. “Hopefully this is not setting up to be a 2002 year, but it certainly looks and feels like that,” said Ed Bork, a rangeland ecology and management researcher at the University of Alberta. “That can change in the matter of a […] Read more

Cereals, Corn, Crops, Forages, Markets, Weather

U.S. corn, DDGS imports likely as drought tightens feed supply

By Terryn Shiells June 26, 2015

CNS Canada –– Livestock producers in Western Canada will likely have to import feed grains such as corn and dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) this year, as drought is seen trimming domestic barley and other feed production. “We’ve seen droughts before, and when it’s happened, usually what has to happen is we import other […] Read more

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Feed weekly outlook: Cheap corn, Prairie harvest quality weigh on prices

Prairie hay crops look thin in many areas

‘Baby’ those pastures in a drought year

U.S. corn, DDGS imports likely as drought tightens feed supply

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